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Into the Woods

1991 · 153 min

A staged fairy-tale musical that starts playful and turns rueful, asking you to sit with its wordy, bittersweet moralizing.

Overview
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • fate
  • betrayal
  • grief
  • redemption
Places
  • fantasy world
  • wilderness
Era
timeless
Audience
teen
Form
  • musical
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour5
Realism2
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, music, fantasy, tv movie
Directed by
James Lapine
Written by
Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
Starring
Bernadette Peters, Chip Zien, Joanna Gleason, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg, Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Ben Wright
Music
Stephen Sondheim
Runtime
153 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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